My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.